Does Anybody Cook at Home Anymore? Driving around at dinnertime lately, even on a weekday, I am amazed that all of the restaurants I pass always seem to be doing a booming business, which perplexes me somewhat. Is our economy become so good that this many people can afford to do this?
Have we as a society suddenly become that affluent? Or, is it that there that there are many households where the art of cooking is unknown or unheard of? Now, I m not talking about opening a box, adding water or whatever and heating cooking, I mean genuine cooking.
Cooking that entails gathering the raw ingredients, preparing/mixing and heating/baking/cooking food and meals from scratch. Thunkit and I go out to dinner on the average of once every two weeks, which we feel is a lot, but we can afford to do so. We couldn t begin to fathom the monotony or the cost of going out for dinner every night.
It s just the two of us now, so our cost of dining out is modest, but what must it cost for families to eat out every day? I once worked with a fellow who ate out for every meal. He also took his wife and children out to dinner and again later in the evening, out for a late night dessert/snack, usually to was near his home.
The kitchen stove was covered with cereal boxes, bread, and other basics, and was essentially being used for storage. His wife, he said, didn t feel fulfilled by cooking meals or feeding her family Consequently, he was always moonlighting, to keep his family fed. They weren t extravagant people (except in their dining habits), no fancy clothes, no exotic vacations, and no new cars.
In fact, they never had what I would consider decent, reliable transportation. And, he was always out in the driveway fixing cars when he wasn t moonlighting, to keep his family fed. When asked about what it cost him each week to feed his family of seven in this manner, he replied, Don t ask.
This family was held hostage to their always eat out lifestyle. So, please enlighten me, do you, or do you know people who can t, don t or won t cook? Where do you/they go for dinner every day?
How do you/they afford it? What does it cost for a family to eat 2-3 meals per day when you don t cook at home? And, if nobody cooks anymore, how do you explain the success and popularity of the Food Channel?
I would surmise that only the very wealthiest among us could afford such a lifestyle, and that they probably have hired cooks to prepare meals for them at home. Going out to eat for every meal, IMO, would get very old, very quickly Posted by Hooda Thunkit at 6/03/2006 11:02:00 AM Links to this post Does Anybody Cook at Home Anymore?
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